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Last year, a team at Duke announced a beta cloaking material whose special nano-properties make it "invisible" to microwaves. Today, however, researchers in Stuttgart have got something even better — a "metamaterial" that can cloak objects in the visible light spectrum. Made of gold nano-mesh, the material has a negative refraction index for visible light — that means it doesn't reflect light, and could give the illusion of blending into the background. I can't wait for my metamaterial full body suit for doing futuristic spy shit. Towards Cloaking Visible Light [Science Daily]
One Step Closer to a True Cloaking Device
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10:30 AM on Mon Dec 24 2007
By Annalee Newitz
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As it turns out, you don't have to wait too long for that suit -- apparently, it's already in use by US forces in the Middle East.
I found the link below last summer from Al-Jazeera. It shows some active camouflage in action: the first part of the video shows what an IED can do to a tank (yikes!), and as US forces show up to help out, we see a guy show up that has some definite Predator-style action. He shows up towards the end of the video clip (around 2:58 for roughly 10 seconds), but when the red circle appears moving from right-to-left, that's our guy (I'm thinking Special Forces of some type) with the see-through duds. Watch for him coming out of the brush, crossing the wall and getting into the tank:
[www.liveleak.com]
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